The scammers have an Algorithm on the title company e-mail  that looks for certain words that trigger an email sent out right at the same time the title company does.So, my buddy sent 195k to account in a Wells Fargo account on closing.

@Kimberly KlaasIf you do searching on google there are ways you can manipulate the algorithm to place your website at the top of the search when people use certain keywords.

@Richie Choy given the responses, it may be helpful to link out to a few past projects or overviews around machine learning.While automation tends to be something many understand, most still do not appear to grasp ML as a algorithm that gets smarter over time.

Essentially it takes a distribution of a bunch of variables, randomly selects a value from each distribution, runs some sort of equation or algorithm using these random values, captures the result of the iteration, and then repeats this process many thousand times (5-10k times is typical).

Keep in mind appraisals are not done by algorithms but by humans and you could get a different number from 3 different appraisers.

Then it was LinkedIn and now Indeed is the most popular and you hear all sorts of fun about predictive algorithms telling people what candidates are going to the best and/or most interested in your open position. 

Another thing - I never count on rentometer/Zestimate algorithms to determine rent.

Your credit score or specifically the one that Lenders use is the FICO which is an independent entity that uses its in-house algorithm to determine your credit score using the information obtained from each credit bureau.

The algorithm pulls from public data averaged across all properties in an area.

Zillow describes its method of creating a Zestimate as drawing on public records and a proprietary algorithm.